How are living things grouped? Lesson 1

Question 1

What is the grouping similar things together called?

Answer 1

Classification

Question 2

Why do scientists classify living things?

Answer 2

In order to identify more organisms

Question 3

How do scientists classify living things?

Answer 3

they look for similarities in body chemistry and in the way organisms look, live, eat, move, grow, and change.

Question 4

What are large major groups of organisms called?

Answer 4

Kingdoms

Question 5

What are the five kingdoms?

Answer 5

Animals, Bacteria, Plants, Fungi, and Protists

Question 6

Why are animals classified together?

Answer 6

Animals are made of many cells because they feed on other living or once living things

Question 7

Why are plants separate from animal kingdoms?

Answer 7

Plants are able to make their own food

Question 8

What makes fungi unique?

Answer 8

They absorb their own food from the remains of other organisms

Question 9

What are some characteristics of protists?

Answer 9

Mostly one-celled organisms, some make food, others take in food

Question 10

What makes bacteria unique?

Answer 10

They have no nucleus, sometimes it can be separated into 2 kingdoms

Question 11

What is the order of the classification system?

Answer 11

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species

Question 12

What is a major group within a kingdom called?

Answer 12

Phylum

Question 13

What do the organisms within a family share?

Answer 13

Many characteristics

Question 14

What is a subdivision of a family called?

Answer 14

Genus

Question 15

What is a unique kind of organism called?

Answer 15

Species

Question 16

What is included in the scientific name?

Answer 16

The names of the smallest groups: genus and species

Question 17

The larger groups are divided into smaller groups based on…….?

Answer 17

Characteristics

Question 18

As the groups get ________, each group includes organism that are more alive and more closely related.

Answer 18

smaller

Question 19

What is one way that plants are classified?

Answer 19

By vascular tissue or transport tubes

Question 20

What does the vascular tissue do?

Answer 20

Carries water and food for plants

Question 21

How many divisions (phyla) of vascular plants are there?

Answer 21

Nine

Question 22

How many divisions (phyla) of nonvascular plants are there?

Answer 22

Three

Question 23

Some plants don’t reproduce by making seeds. Give an example of this kind of plant.

Answer 23

Fern

Question 24

Do all plants make seeds the same way?

Answer 24

NO

Question 25

What are cone-bearing plants called?

Answer 25

Coniferous